The US helped us found the state over 100 years ago and was a reliable ally for decades. Unfortunately, for a short while we though the Soviet Union is a natura

The US helped us found the state over 100 years ago and was a reliable ally for decades. Unfortunately, for a short while we though the Soviet Union is a natural ally for us, but actually it was them who subverted our elections and later occupied us. We were able to get away (again with the help of US) from their influence and asked the US to come back, which they eventually did and since then have been a reliable ally for decades. I don't know about the British, and I am not saying there is European unity. My country's partnership with the US is very natural since we share culture and way of life. There's no need to "keep the US within the fold", we simply think alike. You comparing it to an occupation is simply absolutely wrong. The partnership is of totally different nature. We know exactly what occupation looks like - we had the Nazi occupation, and later the Soviet occupation that ended in 1989 - I remember it myself. Both of these directly changed our governments and tried to germanize or russify us. The US never did anything even remotely similar to what they did. The US came with their military hardware and used it to protect us, never anything else.